Ok, now this is epic
>We present orcs and drow in a new light in two of our most recent books, Eberron: Rising from the Last War and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. In those books, orcs and drow are just as morally and culturally complex as other peoples. We will continue that approach in future books, portraying all the peoples of D&D in relatable ways and making it clear that they are as free as humans to decide who they are and what they do
It’s literally like the lotr memes
you retarded by any chance?
>In those books, orcs and drow are just as morally and culturally complex as other peoples
...were people not playing them like that before? Just because their cultures are more violent or "darker" doesn't mean they're evil.
It's not diversity it's competency.
buddy I'm not putting my d*ck inside your ex girlfriend
Why care about that when the whole system is being thrown out
Why do these people conflate real, interesting diversity like having a warrior, ranger and mage with stupid racial and sexual diversity?
That's retarded, why even have races in the first place if you're not going to differentiate them in any way.
what's the point of updating a tabletop game?
isn't the point supposed to be you create your own adventure based on an unchanging system?
Also, doesn't this belong on /tg/?
I just don't understand why you would spend money on new tabletop shit when all of the best systems have been preemptively developed decades before.
So WoTC is saying that niggers and orcs are the same? I knew they were based
>>/tg/
With every update you can sell 20 rule books of completely unbalanced classes that they didn't even try playing once and a bunch of modules all over again. Can't make money if people still play DnD3.5 20 years alter.
dnd is just a ruleset framework to put your own lore and setting on top of. if you use their lore, sorry but ur a homo
>In those books, orcs and drow are just as morally and culturally complex as other peoples
you mean like in most modern fantasy? Absolute racial moralities haven't been popular in ages.
On the other hand, the fact that they're making it about diversity means that chances are they'll just be swapping one absolute for another.
I wonder how long until they make orcs and every other race a subrace of humans.
Racials abilities, racial feats and favored classes. 90% of players use home rules to change ability scores anyways.
This. You could literally do a fourth reich Faerun and no one could do shit. Where as in vidya you have to eat product as it is.
Expect those next
WE GOING POINT BUY BABY!
Dungeons & Dragons? Probably the kind of dungeon where only men go into and the dress code is "naked leather harnesses", and by "dragons" they mean brightly colored animal shaped dildos.
Who the fuck plays by the book
DnD lore is retarded, we're playing on Pen Island again with its own gods and magic and we're going to have fun
Because identity politics is an insidious virus that infects everything the carriers of the disease interacts with. When you are hell-bent on being a "warrior" or "arbiter" of social justice, anything that doesn't live up to your moraal code is inherently flawed and therefore must be corrected, often to the detriment of whatever they are correcting.
I'm fine with this, even with the dumb justification for it. Racial stat modifiers were always dumb min-max bullshit that actively discouraged creative character concepts without adding much to the game.
>Eberron
Eberron has always been like that
they didn't break any ground and this isn't news
Just don't minmax you retard. It literally doesn't prevent anything and at most you're missing a +2. fucking 10%
>tainted taiga
>Ball's Deep
kek
>Pen Island map
While there is no wrong way of playing D&D, this is the only correct way.
So, are they saying that orcs are niggers?
>Warhammer Fantasy did this over 35 years ago, so we're really ahead of the curve here...
Not only is this ghey, but it's also been done... MANY TIMES. Including by past owners of the D&D IP.
This. I'm getting sick of those dirty fanatics mangling everything I love.
>lets just remove any opportunity for interesting roleplaying or dynamics and make everything either the same or an expy for a real word race
Lame. I'm glad I've got a group willing to play TRPGs other than D&D, or willing to play in a custom setting for D&D.
The rise of the nigger elf is upon us
Simple minded people don't understand that. They are involved in rage culture themselves and just go with "it's offensive, so bad"
Not to mention your starting stats really don't fucking matter all that much.
>we are increasing diversity by making them more like humans
fantastic
Bring on nuclear winter
>2020
>orcs aren't monsters
>2025
>being a succubus is honest work
>2030
>I'm becoming an gibbering mouther(and that's a good thing)
Clearly the (((illithids))) are behind this
it really make you think
Orcs are black people, dwarves/goblins are Jews.
Sounds gay
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